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Thriving in your legal career: Resilience and lessons from sport
How to build resilience for sustained performance For many of us, macro factors such as the ongoing pandemic, geopolitical instability and the cost-of-living crisis, plus our individual work and life challenges, are leading to burnout and exhaustion. So how can...
Managing professional loneliness – strategies for lawyers and leaders
Loneliness in the workplace This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and this year the focus is on loneliness. It affects millions of people across the UK and has been exacerbated by the lockdowns and changes in working habits of the C-19 pandemic. And whilst...
Seven secrets of successful legal consultants
Setting yourself up for success Obelisk Support’s L&D Partner, Lucinda Acland, explores the seven things successful freelance legal consultants do that set them apart. As a pioneer in the freelance legal market, Obelisk Support has over 10 years’ experience...
Women in Law – Progress. Hope. Equity
Women in law: Two decades. Two perspectives. During March, in which we celebrate both International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we spoke to women at different stages of their legal careers to get their views on what has changed for women in law, their hopes...
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Sorted: summer reading recommendations for busy lawyers
Summer reading recommendations With a second summer holiday season in a row dominated by staycations or in-country breaks, the escape to another world via a book takes on a new resonance. Welcome to our traditional summer run-down of some of the latest books...
#MeToo in Law: 3 years on since Alyssa Milano’s viral tweet
What have we learned, and what have we done? While originally coined in 2006 by social activist Tarana Burke, the #MeToo movement picked up global momentum on October 15, 2017 when Alyssa Milano tweeted a request to her followers: “If you’ve been...
How to choose a Zoom virtual background
This blog post was updated on 2 March, 2021 Zoom, the video-conferencing solution of choice during the COVID-19 crisis, had more than 300 million meeting participants per day in 2020, making it the most used video conferencing platform in front of Google Meet...